The massacre took place at Tops Friendly Market, left 10 people dead.
The white man suspected of killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in May will enter a guilty plea to a 25-count state indictment, an attorney representing victims' families said Thursday.
Conors said he represents seven families who lost loved ones in the massacre at Tops Friendly Market carried out by Payton Gendron, now 19, and the families of two people who are seriously injured.
Connors believes the "key strategy behind the plea is it might make it easier …. to claim there's no need for the death penalty" to federal prosecutors, he added.
The families, he said, have spent the months since the shooting advocating for legislative changes and economic development in Buffalo.
Connors' office is also "continuing our investigation to hold others accountable," he said."We're on the cusp of developing [civil] claims against others,"
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